Morocco sets up environment protection foundation

A foundation for environment protection, set up last summer, elected lately in the Moroccan Atlas Mountain city of Ifran its managing board.

Rachid Ben Mokhtar, a former Moroccan education minister, was elected president of the foundation, set up in partnership with the French Nicolas Hulot Foundation.

The foundation, dubbed "Foundation For Nature and Man," will contribute to the elaboration and funding of environment projects. It will be based at the premises of the first Moroccan Anglo-Saxon university "Al-Akhawayne" of Ifran.

The foundation will supervise environment protection campaigns through various pedagogical actions.

Several enterprises announced their decision to make financial contributions to the foundation, the first of its kind in the Maghreb.

The Nicolas Hulot foundation (FNH) has been active since 1996 in Morocco where some 20 FNH school clubs are operating in collaboration with the cultural service of the French embassy in Rabat.